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Bloodhound was started in early 2004 in response to the outbreak of war in Darfur in April 2003. At that time human rights organisations and the humanitarian community were unable to gauge the full scale of the atrocities being perpetrated by the Government of Sudan.

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Feed the dog! Bloodhound needs voluntary contributions to continue its research. The three founding members gave nearly 1500 hours of their free time to produce The Scorched Earth of Darfur, and Director Phil Clarke has so far (January 2018) given over 21 months / 3,600 hours of his time on a pro-bono basis to the Oil in Sudan (Lundin) campaign, 1 month / 172 hours to the Oil in Puntland campaign, plus a further 77 months / 13,250 hours on another project that requires additional funding to be completed.

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The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority Finansinpsektionen should investigate whether Swedish stock market rules were contravened by Lundin Oil/Petroleum AB’s omissions and communications to shareholders and the market regarding the situation in their Block 5A licence in Sudan during 1997­-2003.

Efforts continue in Sweden and abroad to expose the truth about Swedish oil company Lundin’s links to the atrocities that were perpetrated on the civilian population living in their oil concessions in South Sudan during 1997–2003.

These efforts have received much media attention in Sweden, together with the publication of investigative books and the release of a documentary film.

Further media attention has also been received in Norway, as Lundin's profits from the sale of its Sudanese licences in 2003 were invested in Norwegian licences in the North Sea.

As most articles relating to Lundin are in Swedish and Norwegian, they can be difficult to locate for non-Swedish/Norwegian speakers, and are therefore summarised here with relevant links.

In an open letter published on the 18th March 2012 in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Lundin directors Ian and Lukas Lundin defend their policy of investing in countries at war, with the claim that oil is good for development and therefore helps local people. A report by the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS) in 2010 demonstrates that this was very far from the reality in Sudan where some 160,000 people were driven off their land when Lundin explored for oil there. Furthermore, research by Bloodhound and published in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet shows that much of the massive increase in foreign exchange earnings by the government of Sudan was used on the civil war.

Following the screening on Swedish TV during July 2011 of a documentary on South Sudan titled 'Världens Nyaste Land', Bloodhound has written a formal complaint to the Swedish Broadcasting Authority over the serious misrepresentation of facts. An attack helicopter gunship parked outside Lundin's headquarters at Rubkona was made out to belong to a militia group, thereby deflecting the responsibility of the Government of Sudan for the deployment of attack helicopters to clear the oilfields of their local inhabitants. Satellite images analysed by Prins Engineering on behalf of ECOS demonstrate that 160,000 people were driven off their land in Lundin's Block 5a concession alone. Many more were undoubtedly displaced from the neighbouring Arakis and later Talisman concessions.

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